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| | Hexapedia - Dialect |
 | | Italians and Spaniards, for example, can understand each other when speaking what are their supposedly separate "languages," whereas Lombards and Sicilians, speaking what are supposedly "dialects" of the same language, cannot. | | | There have been cases of a variety of speech being deliberately altered to serve political purposes. | | | This point of view sees the modern Romance languages as dialects of Latin, modern Greek as a dialect of ancient Greek, and Tok Pisin as a dialect of English. |
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| | dialectic - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about dialectic |
| | In theory dialectical materialism is meant to provide both a general world view and a specific method for the investigation of scientific problems. | | | This little dialogue is a perfect piece of dialectic, in which granting the common principle,' there is no escaping from the conclusion. | | | The great science of dialectic or the organization of ideas has no real content; but is only a type of the method or spirit in which the higher knowledge is to be pursued by the spectator of all time and all existence. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/dialectic
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